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In the Sims 4's Culinary Career Track, you'll get to choose whether your Sim pursues the Chef or Mixologist branches. Both feature their own rewards but have a couple of things in common. Primarily, the Ideal Mood for the beginning levels of the Career and either Branch is Inspired. These Careers do not give amazing special abilities, though both can Write a Book about their Profession. It is primarily helpful to join to allow your Sims to make money from these low-earning Skills.

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The Creative Trait is helpful for both branches, as it helps Sims to randomly get Inspired, which can stack with other bonuses to get the Very Inspired. Taking a Thoughtful Shower is one means of getting Inspired before work, as is 'Browse Art' on the Computer. If you have Outdoor Retreat, a 6h Inspired Moodlet can be attained from Cloud/Stargazing and is one of the best means of making a Sim inspired at time of writing. Here are the requirements of the first few levels, before we discuss the individual Career Branches:

Culinary Career Levels 1-5

Rank

Job

Wages

Schedule

$/Day

Daily Task & Promotion Requirements

Reward for Promotion

1

Assistant Dishwasher

$15/hour

Fri-Mon, Wed, 4PM-1AM

$135

Prepare Food or Mix Drinks.

Nothing.

2

Head Dishwasher

$16/hour

Thu-Mon, 4PM-1AM

$144

Prepare Food or Mix Drinks. Reach Level 2 Cooking

$334, Corporate Chic Countertop

3

Caterer

$26/hour

Thu-Mon, 3PM-11PM

$208

Prepare Food or Mix Drinks. Reach Level 2 Mixology

$368, Stainless Steel Auto-Pot

4

Mixologist

$35/hour

Fri-Mon, 6PM-2AM

$280

Prepare Food or Mix Drinks. Reach Level 3 Mixology and Cooking

$515, Umber Kitchen Sink

5

Line Cook

$43/hour

Fri-Mon, 2PM-10PM

$344

Prepare Food or Mix Drinks. Reach Level 4 Mixology and Cooking

$556, Corporate Chic Counter Island, New CAS Parts

Chef Career

This Career features higher pay than Mixologist, and you'll get one of the best Refrigerators in the game, free. If you select this Career, be sure and take the Master Chef Aspiration from the Food Category. Level both Cooking Skills by making meals over and over. The experience gains for making higher level dishes are huge, so leveling will not be an issue for you - especially with the Inspired Moodlets put off by the Reward objects.

Mixologist Career

The Ideal Mood for this Branch is Inspired, as stated earlier. All Career Rewards here give off Emotional Auras that help your Sim to be Inspired, which helps them make high-quality Drinks. Additionally, you'll get one of the best Mixology Bars in the game. Level Mixology by practicing bar tricks once you've got a few levels - it's much cheaper and more time-efficient than mixing drinks. Practice your Sim's Charisma by using a mirror to 'Practice Speech' while Confident (brush teeth), and you'll level quickly.

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Just so you know, when making drinks you can sell the ones you make through your inventory sell option. You may break even but sometimes they sell for twice as much or more than what you spent to make them, and if your sim drinks them you can still sell the empty glass for the same price as a full one!

Similarly, you could spend about 1400 simoleons to get the Nano Touchless trash can that can give you money everytime you give it something, though you do have to wait for a few seconds after using it. In the long run its really useful.

maybe i will try and look around at the mods then.... tho i think the sims team should do something about this i even wouldn't mind if i would have to spend some of those points on it....but that will probably not happen in sims4 just like with pets and season :(

hey, i didn't watch the videos, but i find cooking the longest meals greatly increases the daily task. the longer the task, the more daily task fulfillment you get... i filled my daily task one day with a single lobster thermidor. or is this just me?

Not just you, the longer your sim is cooking the more of the daily task will be filled. I think it is apple pie that also takes some time to cook and can fill quite a bit of the daily task, not all of it though from memory - it's been a while since I've played the Culinary Career through.

Well, do you think he should try to set a guidelines for how long meals take in the cooking guide? very short, short, medium, long, very long? something like that?personally i highly recommend that so people who want to cook fast meals can do such, and people grinding the cooking skill can choose the very, very, very long meals.hint: lobster thermidor is one of my top picks right now for cooking daily tasks.

Not sure if it is something Carl might want to include in his guide. But I'll let him know you asked. Often things like this are better left for players to explore the content and find out for themselves like you did.

Quickest and cheapest way to complete the daily task is to Make Drink/Water on a bar. You'll have to do it 3 times but it goes very fast, since your Sim is just pouring water, and it doesn't cost anything. This will work for the basic career and the Mixology branch. Haven't tested whether it works for the Chef branch.

The first two levels of the career seem to have different hours now but at L3 they seem the same. Without playing through the first two levels I can't tell if the hours of work text is showing incorrectly or if the hours of work have actually changed. Thanks for pointing it out, we'll get onto it!

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